A picture of how the revised entry for carbon will look on the periodic table. Credit: T. B. Coplen (U.S. Geological Survey).
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Ten elements that help make up the universe, including the carbon our biology is based on and the oxygen in the air we breathe, are now getting changed in an unprecedented way — they are getting their very atomic weights altered.
Scientists have not invented some magical way to transform the masses of all these elements. Instead, they are updating what are often thought of as constants of nature on the periodic table./.../
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